eberns's blog

Hi Mom! Just needed to say hi before jumping into the details of Thursday.

Overall, Thursday was a productive day in the community. Although things did not go completely according to plan (the Y-Ts STILL have not been delivered!), we were able to teach Don Julio and Jose Luis more about the sight level and how to check the grade on the trenches. Looking at the big picture, this is even more vital to the project than having us lay lots of pipe while we are here, because the community will need to know how to finish the project without us. On top of our success with teaching, we were able to excavate two smaller sections of the piping system and begin excavation on pasaje 4. We are setting ouselves up for some serious pipe laying tomorrow.

After dinner at los Ranchos, we went to the Poli to play soccer and go swimming. Jen took a couple hard hits when we were playing soccer, but she hung in there with the Salvadorians and kicked some butt!

We are hoping for a busy day of pipe laying and continued teaching tomorrow!

Hasta luego,
Erin

¡Buenos Dias Todos!

On Wendsay we were still waiting for the pipe connections and split up into a multitude of groups, Norm, Chris and Jen went with Daniel Riveria to the country club for breakfast , a few of us had a meeting with the mayor to acess a new field site, some were sent to the communities to try to fix a bad connection, and the rest sampled at the wastewater treatment plant. After breakfast Norm left for the United States and Jen claimed his hut.

The group in the communities was able to fix the connection and joined our group at the wastewater plant after lunch where they helped to survey the rest of the plant. The plant was as smelly as ever and literally was a ´poo parade.´After a long day of sampling we returned to los ranchos just in time for summer and were able to complete our testing by bedtime. Everyone was exhausted and the majority were asleep by 10. We wanted to get up early so that we would be prepared for the workshop with the kids and the arrival of the connections.

Adios,

Nikki